Twelve-Winged Angel and Death Knight

In the dimly lit space, shrouded in twilight, the entire world seemed devoid of any light source. Gu Ding, pulled by a strange force, was involuntarily thrown in one direction. He tried to resist several times, but to no avail, so he simply gave up.

"Sea Emperor, is this the Space-Time Disordered Land? Why have I been flying for hours with this force pulling me along, and I haven't encountered anything?" Gu Ding couldn't help but communicate with the Sea Emperor's consciousness.

"The space you are in now is just a teleportation channel. In fact, I saw it when you were teleported in. The number of channels here is as intricate as a plant root system. You are still on the main teleportation channel and have not yet reached the root system. I cannot predict which branch you will be assigned to, nor do I know where you will eventually be teleported to." The Sea Emperor explained the scene he had discovered.

"According to what you're saying, if we use a big tree as a comparison, am I currently standing on the trunk?" Gu Ding roughly sketched out the appearance of this space in his mind.

"You could say it like this: you can think of the Gate of Purgatory you were originally in as a fruit growing on a branch of a large tree. You were first transported from that fruit to the branch, then into the trunk, and finally down into the roots. At the end of the roots is another world." This explanation from the Sea Emperor made Gu Ding fully understand what this space was like.

"In other words, there won't be any danger during the teleportation process?" Gu Ding guessed.

"That's not necessarily true. I don't know enough about this area either. Anyway, you have to be careful in everything you do, and never be careless." The Sea Emperor didn't dare to speak recklessly about things he didn't understand. However, since even the Strongest King had fallen before, he had to be extremely vigilant on this journey and couldn't afford to be careless in the slightest.

During the teleportation, Gu Ding couldn't do anything else but chat with the Sea Emperor.

Suddenly, through the surrounding mist, Gu Ding saw a hazy light coming from afar.

"Is this the end?" Gu Ding looked at the beam of white light with some trepidation.

In an instant, the white mist thinned, and Gu Ding finally saw the source of the white light: a colossal gray beast with a towering physique and hoof-like limbs. It possessed six massive, muscular arms, the hands of which resembled human hands with five fingers, but adorned with sharp, black nails like metallic weapons. The white light emanated from a giant lamp it carried.

Gu Ding couldn't see the beast's face because its size was too enormous; its head was far above the clouds. Gu Ding only vaguely caught a glimpse of a black phantom. That phantom seemed to have long fangs.

Gu Ding only caught a fleeting glimpse of that behemoth. He had seen ancient Platinum Skeleton giants thousands of meters tall, but compared to the figure he had just seen, they were utterly child's play. That figure was the true colossus. Those ancient Platinum Skeleton giants would probably be crushed with a single slap before this beast.

"What was that giant beast just now?" Gu Ding couldn't help but ask the Sea Emperor.

"According to the information I obtained from SkyNet, it should be the legendary Guide. I never expected such a thing to actually exist." The Sea Emperor was also surprised to encounter this legendary monster. "Guides are native life forms of the Space-Time Disordered Land. They act as lighthouses and patrollers, and generally don't attack passersby unprovoked. That's what the information says, but nobody knows the specifics. My database currently has zero records of this creature; it's probably due to insufficient access."

"A guide? Its size is terrifying!" Gu Ding was still in shock.

"I have no way of detecting its exact size. That creature was outside the teleportation channel, and my detection couldn't penetrate it. I estimate that even if it was smaller than the teleportation channel we're in, it wouldn't be much smaller. And this teleportation channel, I detected, is about the size of two or three star systems. That behemoth must have been at least the size of one or two star systems," the Sea Emperor made a rough estimate.

"A behemoth the size of a star field... and it's just a native life form of the Space-Time Disordered Land. How big is this Space-Time Disordered Land?" Gu Ding was completely shocked. The size of that behemoth had overturned his previous understanding. He used to think that a star-sized Starry Sky Giant Beast was already an incomparably enormous creature.

"I don't know how big the Space-Time Disordered Land is. But according to my guess, if we consider this teleportation channel we're in as a large tree, then the entire Space-Time Disordered Land can be seen as a desert planted with trees. And that giant beast we just saw can be seen as an ordinary wild animal in the desert. And the place we finally arrived at should be a Small World inside a grain of sand at the root system. Didn't your planet Deep Sea Star have the saying 'a world within a grain of sand' before? I think you can understand my explanation, right?" The Sea Emperor explained it as simply as possible.

"A grain of sand contains a world... According to this logic, we are even smaller dust particles than grains of sand..." Gu Ding found it hard to believe.

"Calling it dust is actually a bit of an exaggeration. In terms of volume ratio, we are much smaller than dust. Just like humans are to Deep Sea Star what parasitic microorganisms are." Sea Emperor was always a meticulous person, and he never hesitated to address issues related to data.

Gu Ding never imagined that such a unique world existed.

Before Gu Ding could recover, the mist suddenly dissipated. Gu Ding in the direction the mist had dispersed and the first thing he saw was a blazing purple flame. After his eyesight adjusted to the environment, he finally saw the source of the flame.

It was yet another colossal beast, its fur black, resembling a giant black lion. Its mane burned like flames, shimmering with a purple light, and its entire tail was also in the form of flames. Unlike a lion, however, it possessed two enormous, jet-black horns on its forehead, covered in intricate and complex Dao patterns.

What surprised Gu Ding the most was that the enormous lion, clad in golden armor, had a seemingly petite girl standing on its back. The girl was dressed in black armor, holding a purple spear covered in Dao patterns, and stood proudly.

She seemed to sense Gu Ding's gaze and suddenly turned her head to look in Gu Ding direction. "It's a human?"

With just a glance, the girl looked away completely, her indifferent gaze revealing that she had no interest in Gu Ding.

At this moment, Gu Ding also noticed that a white figure was beginning to appear not far away from the girl.

The white figure was tall and slender, its gender indiscernible, with twelve pure white wings on its back. Its face resembled a golden metal mask, except for its eyes, which looked like two sapphires adorning the mask.

"Gu Ding, close your eyes!" Sea Emperor suddenly shouted at Gu Ding.

Without a second thought, Gu Ding immediately closed his eyes.

Just then, the white figure's gaze swept over Gu Ding, and without lingering, returned to the girl opposite him.

"Why did you make me close my eyes?" Gu Ding couldn't help but ask.

"That was a twelve-winged angel. Angels carry special power of rules, and they do not allow others to desecrate them with their eyes. If you look him in the eye, you will instantly be reduced to ashes, and even your soul will perish!" The Sea Emperor then explained.

"A twelve-winged angel? As far as I know, true god-level angels only have four wings, right? What level of angel is a twelve-winged one?" Gu Ding asked in utter astonishment.

"I only know that two-winged angels are God-rank, four-winged angels are true God-rank, and six-winged angels are God-rank. As for twelve-winged angels, I don't know what rank they are." The Sea Emperor frankly admitted that he did not know the angel's rank.

"Who was that girl just now? She actually confronted a twelve-winged angel." Gu Ding's curiosity was piqued by the series of creatures he encountered.

"I'm not entirely sure, but I have a guess: that girl might be Death Knight. The beast she rides is probably Undead Howler from the underworld. This is just a deduction based on information from some mythological stories; whether it's correct or not, I don't know. There's a lot of information about angels on the SkyNet, but there's very little information about the underworld. After all, the underworld is Gathering Place for the dead; only those who have fallen can enter it." The Sea Emperor was also somewhat uncertain about this.

"Why are all the creatures in this Space-Time Disordered Land so big?" Gu Ding asked, puzzled.

"You've got one thing wrong. The angel and the girl you just saw weren't physical entities; they were just projections of a battle of consciousness. Their actual size is about the same as yours." The Sea Emperor saw through the illusion at a glance. "Another thing is certain: those who dare to fight here are clearly powerful beings who can disregard the rules of space and time. Moreover, their strength should be even greater than the guide we just saw."

"This Space-Time Disordered Land is indeed a mysterious place." In less than a day, Gu Ding had gained a lot of knowledge, and he couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

"Boom!"

A loud bang suddenly came from the outside, and the entire teleportation channel trembled. The force pulling Gu Ding suddenly deviated from its original direction, pulling Gu Ding and accelerating towards another direction.

"What happened?" Gu Ding asked the Sea Emperor, somewhat bewildered.

"It must be the aftermath of the battle between that angel and the girl that affected this teleportation channel we're in. Your teleportation trajectory has been completely altered after this incident..." Sea Emperor said, bringing news that was hard to tell whether to be joyful or sorrowful.

"It's alright, we never knew where we'd be teleported to anyway, so let's just leave it to fate this time," Gu Ding said with a carefree grin.

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[Thanks to seven classmates last week: "Cyp6880", "She is beautiful when she smiles", "Mengmengmengmengmeng", "BaiDu", "Ms", "I want to be the best in the world", and "Troublesome Bookworm".] (To be continued ~^~